Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A military engine used during the Middle Ages for hurling stones and other missiles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A military engine formerly used for throwing stones, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
Etymologies
- From Old French mangonel, from Latin manganellus, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mangonellus, diminutive of Late Latin manganum, catapult, from Greek manganon, war machine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Protectionism is such a political dead duck here that it would provide a very useful piece of ammunition for the Eurosceptic mangonel.”
“I hope Santa will bring me a bushmaster carbon-series A3 .243 AR-15 with a 20 '' barrel, birdcage suppressor and backup mangonel iron sights.”
“The besiegers on the ridge took the opportunity to run their heaviest mangonel forward clear of the trees, and let loose all the heaviest stones and cases of iron rubble at the defences, raising their aim to pound incessantly at the timber brattice, more vulnerable by far than the solid masonry of the wall.”
“A great length of the brattice is in splinters, we nearly lost a mangonel over the edge when the parapet went, but we managed to haul it in over the embrasure.”
“September 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm hmmm… time to run some tests with the mangonel.”
“I joined the drivers and the guards near the mangonel that we would be riding down.”
“Bethink you that your illness mars the mainspring of their enterprise; a mangonel will work without screw and lever better than the Christian host without King”
“Also interesting is the mangonel which uses tensiont on a rope wound at the base of the throwing arm to launch the projectile.”
“I was amazed how far Rhys managed to launch his book with his homemade mangonel, hehe...”
“There is a force without beleaguering this accursed castle — hasten to lead them to the attack, and when thou shalt see a red flag wave from the turret on the eastern angle of the donjon, press the Normans hard — they will then have enough to do within, and you may win the wall in spite both of bow and mangonel. —”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mangonel’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
malm, marc, marl, maya, mazy, meet, mel, mew, mewling, mho, miasma, micaceous and 898 more...
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Formerly
Being a list of words with definitions containing the word "formerly."
formerly, armorer, link, plummet, brank, pall-mall, florin, quondam, erstwhile, imponderable, recant, ether and 32 more...
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Greek Fire
being items related to mediaeval warfare, arms and armaments.
caltrop, ballista, trebuchet, mangonel, petard, onager, petrary, hurlbat, francisca, crossbow, longbow, flail and 97 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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Pardon Me, May I Borrow Your Martel-d...
plombée, martel-de-fer, morning-star, falcon-bill, poniard, buttafuore, brandistock, khopesh, polearm, poignard, falchion, mangonel and 5 more...
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the armourer
Armour and weapons, and the occasional soldier.
gauntlet, vambrace, ballista, arbalest, trebuchet, sabre, epee, foil, flamberge, katana, dagger, switchblade and 80 more...
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Superfluoshu -1
wrangle, plurality, ersatz, dongle, melancholia, mephistophelian, wurlitzer, mangonel, weeaboo, non-euclidean, chunder, whosawhatsit and 4 more...
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Words from freerice.com
foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mangonel.
chained_bear "Mustapha swore that the Christians had only two guns, old and honeycombed, and some mangonels, but that even if they had a dozen he should still carry out his attack..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 317 Feb 14, 2008